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After her beloved boyfriend's suicide, a mourning supermarket worker and her best friend hit the road in Scotland, but find that grief is something that you can't run away from forever. (R, 97 min.)
7:00 PM
Staff Picks Series
Every month a member of the Moxie staff picks a film that impacted their lives and we put it up on the big screen. The Staff Picks series is Free for Members.
June's pick was made by Jacob Martin.
"Morvern Caller is a brilliant early film from director Lynne Ramsay. Not only does it explore the morally gray and complicated characters that she would go on to explore in her later films, it also showcases her expertise in visual storytelling. This film tackles the complexity of grief and loneliness and adult friendship. It’s incredible indie cinema from one of our finest working directors. The ending is an all timer and Samantha Morton, as always, is perfect."
Click here to read Jacob's full Moxie staff Q & A.
After her beloved husband's suicide, a mourning supermarket worker and her best friend hit the road in Scotland, but they find that grief is something that you can't run away from forever. [FilmRise]
Starring: Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Paul Popplewell, Bryan Dick
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Genre: Drama
"Exceptionally moving."
— Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
"A strange and beautiful film."
— Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly
"A work of astonishing delicacy and force."
— Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
"A mesmerizing cinematic poem from the first frame to the last."
— Glenn Kenny, Premiere Magazine
"A dark, quirky road movie that constantly defies expectation."
— Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter
"Ramsay and Morton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling."
— Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"A gossamer tale about a heavy subject -- a passive creature who slowly emerges as the active author of her own life."
— Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
"[Director] Lynne Ramsay's second feature is an extraordinary adaptation of fellow-Scot Alan Warner's acclaimed novel."
— Ken Fox, TV Guide Magazine
"While [Lynne] Ramsay's sensibility is entirely her own, it approaches the rawness of work by Nan Goldin or Richard Billingham."
— Kristin M. Jones, Film Comment Magazine
"The wonderfully lush Morvern Callar is pure punk existentialism, and Ms. Ramsay and her co-writer, Liana Dognini, have dramatized the Alan Warner novel, which itself felt like an answer to Irvine Welsh's book Trainspotting."
— Elvis Mitchell, New York Times
"There are two reasons Ramsay succeeds with a story that might at best be called morbid: She visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art, music and metaphor -- and she has the perfect actress to embody Morvern."
— Paula Nechak, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
